How To Lead A Hip Roof

Working on the base of the edges of your hip roof by making use of 2 stacked shingles.

How to lead a hip roof.

Move the roll of felt which you ve now severed from the strip on the roof up and out of your way. Make sure that you start with the first ridge cap lying on the bottom of the ridge of your hip roof. The first step in the process of erecting the hip roof is to get the ridge beam into place at the top of the roof. This project guide is a combination of those two articles and it covers replacing the existing roof decking installing underlayment and ice dam protection laying the first row laying shingles in the field flashing ridge shingles and vents and more.

Install the slates in pairs not one side at a time. Place the 4 6 common rafters in their designated positions along the 2 longest walls and nail them firmly to the wall with a nail gun. The 10 inch step flashings then overlap each other by 2 inches. You need to trim those shingles so that they fit correctly.

Now use a single cap at every spot as you go up the ridge. Continue rolling out the felt until you reach the roof hip on the other end. Lead or stainless steel clips fixed to the ridge pole are clipped over the lead flashing. A faster easier method to frame a hip roof.

Cut the felt in a straight line so that the bottom edge of the felt extends 8 inches past the roof hip. Continue up the hip in this manner flashing over the top of each pair of hip slates. A couple of weeks ago we published a two part series showing how a local roofing contractor shingled a roof with architectural shingles. Lead ridges should be dressed around a raised timber ridge pole and laid in sections.